26Jun 2024 by Ajayvignesh MV No Comments

CI Pipeline To Control Versions to Productions

Blogs, LabVIEW Blog
Embracing Continuous Integration for LabVIEW TestStand Projects After months of advocating for improved control and audit readiness in our software releases, our proposal to introduce a CI pipeline for all production test software (built on the LabVIEW TestStand platform) has been approved! This marks a significant milestone in customer's journey towards more robust, reliable, and compliant software development practices. The need for a CI pipeline became evident through various challenges we encountered with manual processes and fragmented workflows. To illustrate the CI pipeline, the process begins with developers working on their local machines, setting the local experimental builds v0.0.0 to clearly distinguish it as a development version. Upon committing changes to Bitbucket, the build server pulls these changes and updates the change log with commit messages. The build server then…
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01May 2024 by Ajayvignesh MV No Comments

CI CD with TestStand Deployment

Blogs, LabVIEW Blog, Snippets
Lately I have been working a lot with TestStand deployment utility to organize the proper release verisoning of TestStand project. One of the consistent feedback of a customer is that they find hard contorl the various TestStand sequence file and numerous versions and dependencies floating around the manufacturing floor. I suggested them to use TestStand deployment utility and put those up in a CI (Continuous Integration) server so that whenever the test engineer changes the sequence, there will be a package spits out from the server with proper versioning. What I really ended up is helping them to setup and burying myself in the mysteries of TestStand deployment utility unknown areas. First thing I came across is the BuildTSD.exe that helps in command line execution for TestStand Deployment utility. I…
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